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What's New in SEO? | epi0Bauqu: Concentrate on getting quality backlinks. |
Monetizing a Twitter bot? | trickjarrett: Your stats are unfortunately pretty small when it comes to advertising dollars.The fact is that Twitter doesn't lend itself to monetizing on the messages itself, and as that is how your bot operates that makes it quite difficult.Twitter spam is pretty unwelcome in general, the "friending" (when users follow each other) is treated as a pact not to create noise. I think given time it will become more acceptable as Twitter ages and more services spring up that people want to use and need funding to survive.I don't think Freemium will work for you, this isn't a necessary service and that's what is required for user conversion from Free to Premium.The webpage login may work, but now you're just giving the user a specific action which means any ads you show them have a very low chance of catching their eye.I think my suggestion is check out Magpie or something similar, and make one "broadcast" tweet rather than a DM to each user. They have to be following you to get your DMs so they have to get your tweets. That's my suggestion. |
Monetizing a Twitter bot? | ivey: Whatever you decide to do, I think direct message ads are a bad choice. |
Finding a job for the rest of my life | skmurphy: I would focus on finding a job you can do well for the next three to five years, building on gaius' point that you won't be the same person in 10 years.I wonder if it's not writing but finishing something and having it judged that's the problem (a roundabout way of saying perfectionism). If it is writing--which I doubt given the fluency of the prose in your question--perhaps you would make a good counselor or coach or salesperson: someone whose job involves listening, influencing, and verbal improvisation.It could be that you draw your energy from interacting with people (and learning) and you should look for jobs that have a significant component of that.I think most jobs will reward learning (at least learning that leads to excellence in execution not just an accumulation of facts) so I would focus less on learning as you can normally work that into most jobs you take on. |
Monetizing a Twitter bot? | trevorturk: I just started using the service a couple of days ago, and I'm very impressed. Awesome work.I can understand your problem, though. Honestly, I'm not sure that I would pay anything for it, but I'm not a business user or anything - I'm just using it as a slight convenience.So, for me at least, there's not much value. Maybe I'd pay a one-time fee for some kind of convenience, or to stop ads. I payed $10 for the Instapaper iPhone app, but mostly as a "thanks for the awesome service" kind of thing. I could see doing something similar for this.Having some kind of ads doesn't seem like a bad idea, and maybe they could be coupons or something? I dunno - maybe something where you got an affiliate deal? I'm not sure how much I would tolerate, but if it was good stuff, maybe a couple a week.I'm just a joe-average-user guy, though, so I'm not sure how valuable I would be as a way to profit. If there's a way to get after business or heavy users, that might be the trick.If it's not very expensive to run, perhaps you could open-source it or simply use it as a portfolio piece. I've done some open-source work that ended up benefiting me when I was looking for work. At the very least, that should be somewhat valuable.Sorry I can't be much more help than that. I think it's a great little utility, but maybe this is a "feature not a product" situation. Perhaps you could try to sell it to Twitter directly...? License it to UPS for exclusive use...? |
Finding a job for the rest of my life | omarchowdhury: "I love thinking through problems.""I'm definitely a vision guy. I ask way too many questions, but I'm extremely good at throwing away useless information and working out a way to solve something, to get somewhere, to chose a path that will likely work."From these quotes alone I can see what "career" you are most likely fit for: an entrepreneur.Think of a problem, think of how you can solve it, think how solving this problem would lead to benefits (profit).Now, you don't need to dread the word "execution" because I am not going to use it in relation to you. Rather, think back to what you said:"It requires someone else to put the solution into effect."Delegate to others for execution. I work with people who are ultimately much more smarter than me, but what separates me from them is that I can bind together the individual outputs of all members of our group into our unified goal.Learn the art of the persuasion and negotiation (and this can only be learned by taking place in reality, not in your head). This is the most important thing in the beginning - how are you going to get others to follow you into the unknown? |
Monetizing a Twitter bot? | goodkarma: Four ideas:1. Are you getting their e-mail addresses? You could send out some kind of e-mail once a month with a summary of their packages and some ads and/or affiliate offers.2. Since you are sending them direct messages, they must be following you. Use Magpie or some other service to just post advertisment tweets (not direct messages) to your public timeline. You get paid on a CPM basis.3. After every nth package, send them a DM asking for a donation if they appreciated the service.4. License your app to be the official Twitter bot of any of the package tracker services. So if someone tries to track a package on any of their sites it gives them the option to add to your twitterbot. (This one would be the hardest/most work, obviously.) |
How to compose two mapping functions into a third? | nostrademons: What you want is basically the compiler optimization called deforestation:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deforestation_(computer_science)It's only valid in a pure language, and in a strict language, it has the embarassing side-effect that it can sometimes make non-terminating programs terminate. |
Monetizing a Twitter bot? | rrhyne: You need more traffic. Who has a line on people getting shipped packages? E-commerce sites.You could develop a plugin for zencart or any of the other major shopping cart systems that lets users plug their twitter name in to get updates. That should bring you lots of traffic. Maybe you could sell that?That's not real money though, so i'm wondering if each titter message could have a link to more info on the package? This would go to your site, where you can run ads.Hope that's worth something. |
Finding a job for the rest of my life | tstegart: By the way, Thanks to all of you for taking the time to read this post and compose your replies. |
How to compose two mapping functions into a third? | elijahbuck: I might be missing something here, but what about this (I didn't even attempt to run this)? Basically, just call map1 and map2 with a single-number interval, and then apply the function from map3 to that result. This avoids making a local copy, but does require a lot of function calls.(defun compmap (fn mapper1 mapper2 start end)
(cond ((= start end) '())
(else (cons
(fn start (+ (mapper1 start start) (mapper2 start start)))
(compmap fn mapper1 mapper2 (+ start 1) end))))) |
How to compose two mapping functions into a third? | qqq: map1 and map2 repeat code. abstract this part to a general mapper function:(loop for n from start to end dothen you will write the content of the first mapping as a function foo and call the general mapper and pass it foo to accomplish the same thing map1 does.same with map2, except baz instead of foo.then map3 is easy. call the general mapper again and pass in something like this: (lambda (x) (baz (foo x)))or actually it looks like you wanted to add the results, so (lambda (x) (+ (baz x) (foo x)))basically if you define the interesting part of map1 as one individual thing, and ditto for map2, then you can write the combination easily.i hope that's clear and didn't miss the point somehow. |
How to compose two mapping functions into a third? | skenney26: Perhaps it would be simpler to pass the interval modifiers as functional arguments: (def mapr (f x y . fs)
(let r (range x y)
(map f r
(apply map + (map [map _ r] fs)))))
arc> (mapr (fn (x y) (prn x " " y)) 1 3 [+ _ 10])
1 11
2 12
3 13
(1 2 3)
arc> (mapr (fn (x y) (prn x " " y)) 1 3 [expt _ 2])
1 1
2 4
3 9
(1 2 3)
arc> (mapr (fn (x y) (prn x " " y)) 1 3 [+ _ 10] [expt _ 2])
1 12
2 16
3 22
(1 2 3) |
How to compose two mapping functions into a third? | paulgb: You could use lazy lists like (I think) Haskell uses: (define (lazy-range start end) ; create a lazy list that returns the next number in the range [start end]
(if (= start end) (cons start '())
(cons start
(delay (lazy-range (add1 start) end)))))
(define (lazy-map fn lst) ; map a function to every element of a lazy list, returning a lazy list
(if (empty? lst) '()
(cons (fn (car lst))
(delay (lazy-map fn (force (cdr lst)))))))
(define map1 (curry lazy-map (curry + 10))) ; equivalent to map1 from your example
(define map2 (curry lazy-map (lambda (x) (expt x 2)))) ; equivalent to map2 from your example
(define (lazy-list->list lazy) ; convert a lazy list to a list (for printing, etc)
(if (empty? lazy) '()
(cons (car lazy) (lazy-list->list (force (cdr lazy))))))
(lazy-list->list (map1 (map2 (lazy-range 1 10)))) ; example use
Because the lists are lazy, the maps will only be applied as each value is actually needed, like you described. |
How to compose two mapping functions into a third? | nadim: www.stackoverflow.com(no offense) |
How to compose two mapping functions into a third? | silentbicycle: Abstract out the mapping itself, and then apply the composed transformation from map1 and map2 to it. map1 and map2 don't need to do any looping themselves, just work take an int and return an int.Think of it in terms of doing all of your transformations in one pass, if that helps. |
Is it worth switching to a Mac? | jodrellblank: Terminal is nice, spaces is nice, expose is great. Having an OS that can suspend/resume is really nice.But it's just not Windows. My favourite apps aren't here, I don't know my way around the filesystem, all the Windows-specific tools I know are meaningless. When I stray too far outside Safari, it's pretty bleak. |
Monetizing a Twitter bot? | snowstorm: your best bet is to get more users, get momentum, and hopefully one of the shipping companies notices you and partners with you. |
How to compose two mapping functions into a third? | gruseom: Thanks for the replies. Several have pointed out that the unique portions of map1 and map2 are simple functions that operate on scalars and are easily composable. However, this is not true of the actual problem I'm working on. I chose a toy example so I could describe it briefly. Unfortunately, it's misleadingly simple (rather obviously so, in retrospect).I guess I'll just add that it's essential that all of these be mapping functions (i.e. they take a functional argument that they call back over some range, passing a value computed using that range). |
Is it worth switching to a Mac? | inklesspen: I highly recommend Screenflow as a replacement for Camtasia. |
Review My App - Popling.net, Learning without studying | bprater: Is the site down right now? |
Review My App - Popling.net, Learning without studying | rrhyne: Bad idea? Don't want to install? Website doesn't get the idea across? Help me out here! :D |
Review My App - Popling.net, Learning without studying | gsmaverick: Neat idea, but I think the execution needs some work. You have definitely done something cool here, but take it a step further. I haven't checked it out too much but I imagine you can make your own packs as well? |
Where do you go for hacking help? | dawie: Google and these days StackOverflow (http://stackoverflow.com/) |
Where do you go for hacking help? | spydez: When I hit a wall, I usually do something like this: 1. Google
2. Stare at ceiling.
3. Do something unrelated, like read HN, while my subconscious ruminates.
4. Try again.
I like to figure it out without bugging other people, unless it's something stupid and I know a guy who knows the answer. |
Review My App - Popling.net, Learning without studying | rrhyne: So far from looking at my Mint stats after putting the site up here 5 hours ago, I've gotten only 50 uniques, 3 new user accounts, but only 1 person actually using the app through the AIR install.That looks like a 2% conversion to user rate, with a 66% falloff rate between signing up and using the service.Dismal!To fix this, I'm thinking I'll try to simplify so the user only has to download the app. The app will ask for user/pass, or will generate a unique APP id from the server, which the user can use to subscribe to flash card sets.This is the path of least resistance for the user, but I'm worried about problems with this approach. Anyone? |
Where do you go for hacking help? | Shamiq: Typical order: 1. Google
2. Whiteboard
3. Flatmates |
Where do you go for hacking help? | Tichy: Not that I have used it much, but my impression was lately that such things have moved to IRC (rather than usenet)? |
Closest thing to Firebug for IE? | jdunck: http://www.debugbar.com/ |
Where do you go for hacking help? | thomasmallen: Either documentation or the mailing list (if not in the docs). Forums if the problem isn't specific to the project. |
Closest thing to Firebug for IE? | thorax: Firebug Lite:
http://getfirebug.com/lite.htmlThey've gotten it to come further along than I expected it would ever get. |
Where do you go for hacking help? | CaptainMorgan: Google goes without saying...As Tichy alluded to, I make heavy use of IRC in what I have learned to be are some polite and efficient channels. It takes a while to see which channels are going to help you and which are just going to waste your time, although the latter is easier to spot.Sometimes I find forums to be too slow and good only for search purposes - in IRC, if I have a problem with Linux, Windows, or a programming language that can't be easily found in a timely search session, then there are an abundance of folks willing to help out in real-time. A lot of folks knock IRC for the shit that tends to float around, but I just keep my client open all the time and then go to it when I need to ask a question. It's kind of like my own support team that I haven't paid for in terms of currency. If you've served your time over the years, such as helping others out, then your service will be answered in kind when you have a problem - it's almost like a respect has been built upon, folks remember you; some channels have karma points to increase the reputation of active helpers.Some of the best professional working relationships I've built have come from IRC, which these days I talk to and consult via direct IM, say with Pidgin instead of clogging the channels.If you decide to use IRC, I have the same handle there too. :) Hope to see you there!Mailing lists that are specific to the larger issue, such as a list for a framework, in my experience have shown to be more helpful than forums... your results may vary. |
Closest thing to Firebug for IE? | apu: XRay for some rudimentary placement information: http://www.westciv.com/xray/ |
Closest thing to Firebug for IE? | falsestprophet: It may very well be Firebug on Firefox. |
Where do you go for hacking help? | hachiya: irc.freenode.net
#perl
#ruby-lang
#c
#pythonThese are just a few of the populated and extremely helpful channels available. |
What are physicists doing? | newt0311: So... Special relativity is called "special" because it specifically assumes no acceleration and therefore, no force. That formula you have is an approximation for "small" forces. General relativity is what actually explains space with acceleration (using Riemann Geometry, another fascination and extremely complex topic in of itself relying on tensor calculus, which is another fascinating and extremely complex topic in of itself). Secondly, the Lorentz transformation is critical to special relativity, because that is what gave rise to the entire theory and also because the Lorentz transformation is exact (up to QM effects and 0 acceleration). Also, the Lorentz transform is sufficient to derive the result e = mc^2 among many other useful results on momentum and particle collisions (or at least the aftereffects thereof, since we can have no forces) which is why special relativity is even taught in isolation.As to the textbooks, all I can say is that you haven't come by the right textbooks yet. I would advise reading the Feynman's lectures on physics (all 3 volumes). Expensive but worth it and if you want, you could probably find free pdfs online. FLs does indeed go into the gory details of special relativity (v1 I think) and even shows how to derive most of the useful results including (I think) information on how to derive the Lorentz transformation from the Special Relativity's base assumption: the speed of light is constant in all time frames. ENM along with several applications is also discussed in FLs (v2 I think). FLs V3 covers QM is great detail (well... the parts that we humans can solve mostly). Another very good book on ENM would be Electricity and Magnetism by Purcell, Berkley Physics Course Vol. 2.Oh btw. the central assumption of General Relativity is that force and gravity are just 2 different manifestations of the same phenomenon. Thus, for very weak gravitational fields, you could actually use the formula you have. Just that it would not be very useful because a) you would have to interpret it as constantly changing time frames over small time intervals, and b) because I don't think the Earth's gravitational field (or the moon's) is weak enough to justify the approximations inherent in your equation.A note on finding good textbooks: Pick a good university. Any good university (I would advise Caltech but thats because thats where I study) and chances are very good that said universities will publish the course textbooks for their classes. Some will even publish the homework assignments and solution sets along with lecture notes. Eg. http://www.pma.caltech.edu/GSR/physicscourses.html is the place where CIT has currently placed a convenient listing of all the physics courses offered with links to their web pages which contain among other things: the textbooks, syllabus, and in most cases, the homeworks for the class. Finding textbooks from there shouldn't be very difficult. |
Where do you go for hacking help? | macco: After Google I search the forum that I can relate to the forum and if I have no clue I post in that forums. |
Where do you go for hacking help? | viggity: stackoverflow.com |
Closest thing to Firebug for IE? | halo: Developer Tools for IE8 with IE8 put in IE6/7 rendering mode? |
Why do we capitalize letters? | noodle: i haven't done it in years, except in formal capacities. fewer keystrokes = more efficiency |
Why do we capitalize letters? | parenthesis: We do actually capitalise a lot less than was done in the past. Find some unmodernised English writing from circa 1600, say, and you'll find lots of capitalisation of (non-proper) nouns, for example.The contemporary convention of capitalising the first letter of a new sentence helps to show more clearly where sentences begin and end. Capitalising proper names helps distinguish particular special (not necessarily animate) individuals from things that merely have some common property. "In the times in which we live, The Times keeps us informed of world events." "The spectator was not actually spectating, but was reading The Spectator." |
Where do you go for hacking help? | twoism: Depending on the language, usually...
Google (of course). Then apidock.com (for ruby / rails) pretty much the best doc site for either in my opinion.For Rails I have found that just browsing the source/comments on github is the best source for figuring out really tricky issues. I stay logged in to IRC but most of the time never feel like bothering anyone. I kind of enjoy figuring things out for myself, even if it's a trivial problem I still get satisfaction from solving things on my own. |
Where do you go for hacking help? | dcminter: (1.) Google. (2.) Speak to friends and colleagues. (3.) More Google. (4.) Then I crack open the source code (if available). (5.) Then I hit the bookshelf, including Safari Online. (6.) If I still haven't got it, I'll ask in a forum, but at that point it's a toss up whether I'll get an answer or not. |
Where do you go for hacking help? | tdavis: Google then Freenode, pretty much exclusively.Edit: Also, friends smarter in whatever area it may be, if any are handy. |
Where do you go for hacking help? | DanielBMarkham: Google does it |
Where do you go for hacking help? | epi0Bauqu: I'm thinking of starting (with mdakin) a help instance akin to the MIT help instance. It would be a live chat system that has a UI designed to not let you use focus. No idle chatter, just crowd sourced Q/A.The intention is to have a core group of hackers essentially leave it on all the time and answer when available. When it works, it is much faster and often more useful than forums/Google.If interested in beta-testing before full release, please email. We obviously need a core group of interested parties.Some more info on it:http://www.ics.uci.edu/~jpd/classes/ics105s03/readings/acker... |
Where do you go for hacking help? | aditya: IRC. irc.freenode.net (use http://mibbit.com if you don't have an irc client :) |
Closest thing to Firebug for IE? | kingsley2: Microsoft Script Editor (if you primarily need JavaScript debugging). Unfortunately, it's bundled with MS Office - go figure. http://www.jonathanboutelle.com/mt/archives/2006/01/howto_de... |
Subversion client recommendations for OSX and PC? | makecheck: You can just download the binaries for the client (http://subversion.tigris.org/). If you want menu and icon support when browsing files, there's SCPlugin for the Mac's Finder or TortoiseSVN for Windows. If you want a GUI, note that the Mac's native Xcode environment has Subversion support built-in. |
Closest thing to Firebug for IE? | msb: This one is not bad...http://projects.nikhilk.net/WebDevHelper/Default.aspx |
Any recommended companies that can do security audits for startups? | jamess: What sort of price are you looking to pay? I've written a lot of secure software in the past, and I may well be able to recommend a couple of firms who have done a similar job for me but I'm afraid they don't come terribly cheap. |
What are physicists doing? | nsrivast: You say "physics textbooks don't give this system explicitly". They don't need to - they simply present the system that's most instructive to learn or is most interesting to their authors. As long as your formula or "system" is consistent with the accepted formulations of special relativity, you have no reason to worry.PS - Most physics communities are getting by with their own methods, and if you really think yours adds something you should write a textbook (or a paper). |
Closest thing to Firebug for IE? | jmoiron: If you install visual studio express 'web developer' package, which urged strongly to install microsoft sql server and some large dot net package, you can debug javascript fairly nicely:http://www.berniecode.com/blog/2007/03/08/how-to-debug-javas...I use a combination of this and firebog lite, but neither is as good as firebug or safari's web developer tools. |
Where do you go for hacking help? | dulbelajardul: If google / forum / irc channel cannot help you or maybe disconnected from internet, there are a lot of way to problem solving
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Problem_solving |
Subversion client recommendations for OSX and PC? | cpr: (All for Mac OS X:)There's a beautiful app, Versions, http://www.versionsapp.com/, but it's around US$50. That's the one we use.There's SvnX, http://www.lachoseinteractive.net/en/community/subversion, which is free but ultimately not very good (in our experience).There's ZigVersion, http://zigversion.com/; no opinion.But, really, a 5-second effort with Google would turn up all of this and more:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_Subversion_client... . |
Do you write more/better code when you are drinking/drunk? | dmoney: Apparently there's been some research into this topic: http://xkcd.com/323/ |
Any recommended companies that can do security audits for startups? | yan: Paging tptacek. |
Do you write more/better code when you are drinking/drunk? | shutter: I've not tried this, but I would wonder how much the potential for "dumb errors" increases when in that state. I already say "Why the heck did I write that?" too many times even when sober! |
Do you write more/better code when you are drinking/drunk? | nostrademons: More, yes, but probably not better.We had a CS39 liquor cabinet in my Operating Systems Design course. Rum, vodka, gin, and lots of mixers. We needed it.This led to some funny comments in the code, like // Don't believe anything this next line says
// I'm drunk anyway. |
Good places to send Yahoo and other refugees? | jmtame: Tokbox! |
Do you write more/better code when you are drinking/drunk? | jmtame: I'm glad you asked this, now I won't feel so bad about doing it. |
Do you write more/better code when you are drinking/drunk? | adatta02: I drink while I'm coding pretty routinely. I can't really tell if it makes me any more productive but it definitely holds up the programmer stereotype.There is also that sense of urgency that you have to get stuff done before you get to drunk... |
Closest thing to Firebug for IE? | nickfox: Visual Studio 2008 with client-side debugging is pretty darn good. I use that along with firefox/firebug and have found the two to be comparable. Microsoft has done a pretty good job with the javascript debugging. |
Where do you go for hacking help? | nickfox: After I've exhausted all the usual suspects (google, newsgroups, etc.), I'll take a nap. I now do it on purpose and it's amazing how often I wake up with the answer in my head. |
Review my site - Shiftpop.com | trevelyan: I had trouble figuring out what the site did from the text in your advertisement, possibly because referring to video as "casts" is counter-intuitive to me. It makes me think of the word webcasts, when your examples seem to be video files and movies.Tried dragging a video into the lower sitecast box which is right beside the video selection menu and it did nothing, although it started playing in both when I dragged it into the upper one. The Say What option didn't work for me, or maybe I just don't know how that stuff works. Clicking in various places there did nothing for me. Someone with more experience with SEO would know if the tag cloud is being useful. I wouldn't try to find video using it.I wouldn't pay for this, but that's more because I don't think it makes sense to pay intermediaries for online content presumably sourced elsewhere. I do like the design and the drag and drop functionality, although the line-height on the about page needs to be increased to make the text more legible and some of the navigation terminology "Cloud" is puzzling. |
Review my Startup, Entitea | guruz: If you expect a lot of german visitors, you might want to partner up with http://allmytea.de/ ... a site that lets people mix and then order their own tea.I showed this HN posting to a friend of mine. His reaction was basically "OMFG THAT WAS MY IDEA!" |
Good places to send Yahoo and other refugees? | andrew__: You could try adding them to http://layofftalent.com/ |
Do you write more/better code when you are drinking/drunk? | icey: I used to do this years ago - I'd get home from a night at the bar and decide to sling some code. Ultimately I had to stop doing it though; the code I wrote was written in such a different style than my ordinary style that it became problematic to troubleshoot easily.That being said, there was more than one occasion where I solved a problem after drinking that I was having a problem figuring out prior to it. |
Where do you go for hacking help? | Jem: If Google proves unfruitful, I have a guy I pester. |
Review my site - Shiftpop.com | rrhyne: Second dropping the 'Casts' terminology. I would go with webcasts or streams. I would use google's keyword suggestion tool and find out what people are using to search for webcasts, then use those terms.I think you'll loose initial users people who don't get the functionality with the drag and drop.I like your design, but for the intro tutorial, I'd simplify it greatly, using less graphics. It seems too much like a video I didn't choose, which I was ignoring at first.Good luck! |
Where do you go for hacking help? | known: http://groups.google.com/ |
When is a startup not a startup? | pclark: when its ajar? |
Do you write more/better code when you are drinking/drunk? | lacker: It doesn't seem to hurt for straightforward programs, but it's much easier to make bad design decisions while drunk. It also takes me forever to debug while drunk. I don't really think it helps me in any way. |
Outsourcing to Australia | stillmotion: Consider Australia as the 51st state of America, except everything is extremely expensive in Australian dollars. Developers there don't charge pennies, if that's what you're asking.If you're really looking for outsourcing, check out high quality Indian companies. They're a lot cheaper than what you'd find around the country and they're excellent at what they do. |
Where do you go for hacking help? | lacker: Google is the #1 resource if your question is the sort that can be summarized in a few words. Like if you want information about a particular function in a particular library, or to read how to integrate two different systems. Google is also the way to go if you have an error message and you can quote it to find people talking about the exact error message.For some problems, though, it's harder to search for an answer. For example, a question of good javascript style for a particular thing you are trying to do. For this sort of thing I ask friends of mine.There's also generally mailing lists and forums that are appropriate for your specific topic. Stack Overflow too if your question doesn't fit nicely into a topic. The problem with these is that you generally don't get an immediate answer, and you might not get an answer at all, so you have to kind of ask your question, then keep trying on your own anyways, or do something else for a while. So this is definitely not as good as the instant methods. You also are more likely to get bad advice if it's not from someone you trust.I never use books to solve specific programming problems. Much too slow. Maybe if they were searchable. |
Do you write more/better code when you are drinking/drunk? | m0digital: Ofcourse that's extremes to everything. If you develop while trashed I doubt its gonna turn out well.However, I do find myself programming better with some beer. I actually feel a little more relaxed and focus better. Strange I know. |
Closest thing to Firebug for IE? | mnaganov: IE Web Developer toolbar for DOM / CSS inspection and tweaking, and MS Script Editor (from MS Office) for JS debugging. Wireshark for net requests dumping.But of course Firebug is much easier to use. |
Question about an earlier post | kleevr: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=301155 |
Review my startup - CloudFire | aristus: Slick presentation, but I have to ask a few basic things:Were the heck do you get the 50Bn number, where do you get the 10% number, and what leads you to believe that the problem is ease of use?Does this 50Bn number include photos that the owner does not want to share? Photographers take tons of photos they throw away, professionals take photos for work (evidence, training, etc). I generally don't post photos at all."no uploading" -- does that mean I have to leave my computer on and connected? Or are you uploading in the background?Is uploading to Flickr actually that hard? The demo looks like there is a pretty high 'click tax', to the point of choosing an iTunes/iPhoto xml library file, etc, and that's on top of downloading & installing the program and signing up with a credit card.Nitpick on the home page: "adddress" |
Review my startup - CloudFire | redorb: YouTube has video / flickr has photos
* then again yahoo had search :) good luck |
Review my startup - CloudFire | jtuyen: http://www.cloudfireit.com/help/general.htmlnot sure if this is a design issue but from "Who did you build CloudFire for?" to "Do people that want to access my media need to download anything?" is indented and bolded. While from "Do people need a login to access my media?" to "I have a ton of stuff, will my broadband connection be enough?" is not indented and displaying regular font size. |
When is a startup not a startup? | matthewer: when you feel like your not. |
Review my startup - CloudFire | rrhyne: I can't be bothered to upload. It's a problem, but personally, I'd be worried about security implications of sharing a folder on my hardrive with a webservice?I like your presentation. Very clean. on the Features page, I think changing the itunes/iphoto screens to a computer + photos illustration would go futher in saying 'straight from your drive' to the web.Good luck |
Review my startup - CloudFire | bprater: Wow, I'm slow or it took me at least a minute to figure out what the heck your service is doing.I think you may want to play with your slugline:"Tired of uploading your photos to Flickr to share pics with your friends and family? With Cloudfire, you'll never ever have to do it again. Here's why: the second a photo arrives in iPhoto, it's instantly streamed to web for anyone to see."Not tight enough, but I get what it does reading that. (I know you do more than iPhoto, but it may click better for some folks.)BTW, I'm not sure if I'm being a douche by saying this, but I don't prefer women's voices or Indian voices on screencasts. I prefer the British/American male accent. (My good buddy in Toronto is Indian, so I think I get a little latitude on calling out your accent.) |
What's a modern equivalent of the 80's "War Games" movie? | shutter: Somewhat related: They made a WarGames sequel. http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0865957/I don't know of any hacker-related movies specifically, but I'd note a few sci-fi movies that inspired technological creativity: Flubber (the hovering robot), I Robot, Ironman. Also Futurama, in a somewhat different way. |
Review my startup - CloudFire | sobriquet: I feel that the video is way too long for a "quick tour". After watching bullet points slowly load for the first 30 seconds, I turned it off.While inquiring HN minds may watch all 4 min, I doubt most users will. I recommend a 30 second teaser which gets the message across, and turn the rest into a how-to video which users can watch if they need help. The UI/UX of the site seems pretty simple, so I don't think people will need a walk through unless they're really dense.Also the layout on http://www.cloudfireit.com/what_is_cloudfire.html is pretty off balance. Hurts my eyes!That being said, I like the idea and I'll be signing up for the free trial :) |
Review my startup - CloudFire | eli_s: Batch uploading a folder worth of photos to flickr is easy - 3 clicks 1. hit browse button 2. Multi-select all files 3. Upload.I don't think you're solving a problem that makes people's lives difficult at the moment. There is a huge resistance to change, so getting people to jump from flickr to cloudfire would require you convince them that a problem exists in the first place.Maybe this product would appeal to a real power user who is uploading lots of photos/videos on a daily basis, but how many of these are there? How willing would they be to swap to a new service (especially given they have probably invested considerable time to build up their existing profiles)? How many are happy to install software and share data? How many consumers are happy to sign up for an ongoing fee?Maybe your niche within a niche is big enough to build a business - I hope so because despite all the hurdles you have in front of you it looks like you have a nice looking product.All the best. |
What's a modern equivalent of the 80's "War Games" movie? | ruddzw: I'm inclined to just say WarGames. But the closest that I've seen in a more modern tone was Antitrust. None of my computer-inclined friends seemed to respect it though. |
Review my startup - CloudFire | paul9290: So this is DropBox for photos? I think that is how I understood it. |
Review my startup - CloudFire | whalesalad: Heh. In terms of the marketing material and the data on the website, it reminds me an awful lot of the startup that I work for... iLovePhotos (http://ilovephotos.com). Very similar indeed. |
Review my startup - CloudFire | joshsharp: Feedback on the site itself: pages like http://www.cloudfireit.com/pricing.html have the details -only- in the image (and no alt text). This is hardly the most accessible way to deliver the information, as screen readers won't pick up any of it. Consider using more semantic markup (headers and divs) and replacing their text with CSS image replacement techniques. The visually impaired (that includes Google!) will thank you. |
Review my startup - CloudFire | okeumeni: I don’t know much about file sharing business, I don’t use any public system myself; we do own an infrastructure for that. But I have to say looking at your application it look great, I can tell you guys spend a lot of time on it and that you know what you are doing.This is my two cent advice to you guys: don’t get discourage by negative feedback from HN, read between lines. Take all comment with a positive spirit, critique should be a base for your work ahead. You must find ways to convince more people of the usage of your tool. Focus on converting more people into your cause; sell your product. HN is a tough crowd, but a crowd with experience and good judgment. Take all comments as a call to go back to your drawing board and do more magic.Good luck guys and keep it up. |
What's a modern equivalent of the 80's "War Games" movie? | thorax: Live Free or Die Hard maybe? War Games Dead Code? Antitrust?Not sure if those are driving people, but they try to put kids in those sort of situations to help save the world. |
Review my startup - CloudFire | catone: This is a really minor thing, but a pet peeve of mine is when vowels from two separate words line up in a domain. It confuses me at first glance, and sometimes the name gets obscured. So I see, CloudFireit (i.e., something I would pronounce "firite") instead of CloudFireIt.You might want to consider switching to something like getcloudfire.com or gocloudfire.com ... both are available. |
What are your favorite talks/videos? | ardell: I love DHH's talk from Startup School "The Secret to Making Money Online". Seems like his "charge people to use your service" become a lot more relevant since the recession hit.http://www.justin.tv/hackertv/97862/DHH_Talk__Startup_School...Frankly I often mentally reference PG's startup school talk: solving a problem for people whose hair is on fire. People who have a big problem that need any solution urgently.http://www.justin.tv/hackertv/98110/Paul_Graham_Partner_Y_Co...And of course, both of Hans Rosling's talks on global poverty trends from TED. The technology behind his presentations is fascinating, but the historical context he adds as a speaker pushes these two videos over the top for me.http://www.ted.com/index.php/speakers/hans_rosling.html |
What's a modern equivalent of the 80's "War Games" movie? | manvsmachine: Strangely enough, I'd say Iron Man. A lot of people I've talked to about the movie were more into Tony Stark's smart home tech than they were into the suit. I distinctly remember one female friend of mine who despises tech talk, asking me all about whether it would be possible to engineer those self-dimming window displays.Maybe it's not as realistically grounded as others, but it definitely shows people why we do what we do: we like building cool stuff. |
Why is there so much talk about git but little about mercurial | delano: http://whygitisbetterthanx.com/ |
Why is there so much talk about git but little about mercurial | illume: hg is easier to type than git. That's 33% better at least(with integer percentages, it's event better with float percentages... and even better with fractions).Imagine typing git 20 times? Well can you see it now? Good.NOW, imagine typing hg 20 times, that is 60 keys pressed, VS only 40 keys. You'll probably make less errors with 2 keys too.git didn't bring anything new to version control... with it's 3 key system. svn had 3 letters, cvs even had 3 letters. However hg has brought a 33% improvement to version control -- with it's revolutionary 2 letter system.Obviously a break through. Obviously fucking cool. |
Why is there so much talk about git but little about mercurial | neilc: Mostly it is just hype/marketing: technically, it's a wash. |
Why is there so much talk about git but little about mercurial | zacharydanger: The answer you're looking for is that the cool and/or hip Rails kids decided to back git. |
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